METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHARGING A BATTERY

Portable, battery powered audio playback apparatuses are abundantly available. More and more of these apparatuses have built-in rechargeable batteries. It takes a long time to recharge these batteries. A user may not always need the full amount of power that can be provided by a fully charged batter...

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Main Authors BLACQUIERE, JOHANNIS, F., R, KELLY, DECLAN, P, VAN GASSEL, JOZEF, P
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
French
German
Published 13.09.2006
Subjects
CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTINGELECTRIC POWER
CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
ELECTRICITY
GENERATION
SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY
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Summary:Portable, battery powered audio playback apparatuses are abundantly available. More and more of these apparatuses have built-in rechargeable batteries. It takes a long time to recharge these batteries. A user may not always need the full amount of power that can be provided by a fully charged battery, but only the amount enough for rendering and reproduction of a limited amount of multimedia data objects. With current art devices, it is difficult to determine when-after which amount of charging time-the battery has enough energy to render a selection of multimedia data objects. Therefore, the invention provides an indicator that indicates during and/or after charging that the battery comprises enough energy to render selected multimedia data objects.
Bibliography:Application Number: EP20040801487